Robert Higgs Citas

• El principio de la sabiduría política es darse cuenta de que, a pesar de todo lo que siempre te han enseñado, el gobierno no está realmente de tu parte; de hecho, está a por ti.

  Robert Higgs

  Wisdom, Your Side, Government

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• In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

  Robert Higgs

  Burden Of Proof, Anarchy, Debate

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• La votación, el todo y el fin de los políticos democráticos modernos, se ha convertido en una farsa, si es que alguna vez fue otra cosa. Al votar, el pueblo decide únicamente cuál de los oligarcas preseleccionados para él como candidatos viables empuñará el látigo utilizado para azotarlo y comandará la legión de cómplices voluntarios y lamebotas ungidos que perpetran las innumerables violaciones de los derechos naturales del pueblo. Mientras tanto, los amos tranquilizan a las masas asegurándoles día y noche que ellas -las multitudes saqueadas y acosadas que componen el electorado- son ellas mismas el gobierno.

  Robert Higgs

  Night, Government, Rights

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• Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates.

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  Rights, Leader, Political

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• If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

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  Swimming, Floating, Paddling

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• Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

  Robert Higgs

  Elements, Taxation, Economy

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• Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

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  People, Connections, Income

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• This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties.

  Robert Higgs

  Militar, Guerra, Preparación

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• The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps it's improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide.

  Robert Higgs

  Fire, Flames, States

  "The Song That Is Irresistible: How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction". Robert Higgs's Schlarbaum Award Acceptance Speech at the Mises Institute's 25th Anniversary Celebration, mises.org. October 16, 2007.

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• H. L. Mencken dijo que "todo hombre decente se avergüenza del gobierno bajo el que vive". A estas alturas, sin embargo, ya no me avergüenzo, porque no me identifico con el gobierno bajo el que vivo. Más bien lo considero una organización criminal que, sin provocación alguna, ha decidido declarar la guerra a mis justos derechos, no sólo a los míos, por supuesto, sino a los de todos. Aunque esta vil empresa es mi problema, porque me roba y me acosa implacablemente y sin piedad, no es mi responsabilidad: el clavo no es el martillo.

  Robert Higgs

  Guerra, Responsabilidad, Hombres

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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• Con respecto al llamado contrato social, a menudo he tenido ocasión de protestar porque ni siquiera he visto el contrato, y mucho menos se me ha pedido que consienta en él. Un contrato válido requiere oferta, aceptación y contraprestación voluntarias. Nunca he recibido una oferta de mis gobernantes, por lo que ciertamente no he aceptado ninguna; y en lugar de consideración, no he recibido más que desprecio por parte de los gobernantes, quienes, a pesar de la ausencia de cualquier acuerdo, me han amenazado indudablemente con graves daños en caso de que no cumpla con sus edictos.

  Robert Higgs

  Acceptance, Agreement, Events

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• Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Twenties, Four

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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• But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.

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  Government, Succeed, Groups

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• All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.

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  Liberty, Horror, States

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• No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

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  Fire, Guarantees That, House

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• It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

  Robert Higgs

  Lines, Littles, Poverty

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• Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

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  Character, Mean, Compassion

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• In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own criminality and toward real or fictitious devils abroad. Wars have therefore proved to be extremely useful in propping up the political class and preserving it from the public resistance and rebellion that might otherwise have arisen.

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  Real, Guerra, Clase

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• Intervenir globalmente, perder la libertad localmente.

  Robert Higgs

  Pierde

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• Si tuviera que usar una sola palabra para describir lo que está fundamentalmente mal con el gobierno de hoy, yo usaría la palabra fraude.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Use, Today

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• En la sociedad de transferencias, el público en general no sólo es más pobre, sino también menos satisfecho, menos autónomo, más rencoroso y más politizado. Los individuos participan menos en actividades comunitarias voluntarias y más en beligerantes contiendas políticas. Las auténticas comunidades no pueden respirar en la atmósfera venenosa de la política redistributiva.

  Robert Higgs

  Community, Political, Atmosphere

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• Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

  Robert Higgs

  Ease, Wealth, Legitimacy

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• Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.

  Robert Higgs

  Giving, Historical, Regression

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• Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities.

  Robert Higgs

  Political, Groups, Staff

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• La libertad en Estados Unidos nunca se restablecerá mientras las élites y las masas por igual esperen que el presidente realice hazañas sobrenaturales y, por tanto, toleren un ejercicio prácticamente ilimitado del poder presidencial. Hasta que podamos restaurar un gobierno limitado y constitucional en este país, que Dios nos libre de los grandes presidentes.

  Robert Higgs

  Country, Exercise, Government

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